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  2. Natural wine - Wikipedia

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    Some sources claim that the movement started with winemakers in the Beaujolais region of France in the 1960s. Several winemakers, namely Marcel Lapierre, Jean Foillard, Charly Thevenet, and Guy Breton, sought a return to the way their grandparents made wine, before the incursion of pesticides and synthetic chemicals that had become so prevalent in agriculture after the end of World War II.

  3. Glossary of winemaking terms - Wikipedia

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    Winemaking conditions that promote exposure to oxygen, such wine barrels kept partially full in order to oxidatively age the wine Aging barrels Aging barrel A barrel, often made of oak, used to age wine or distilled spirits. Alcohol Generally refers to ethanol, a chemical compound found in alcoholic beverages. It is also commonly used to refer ...

  4. Sociobiology - Wikipedia

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    Edward H. Hagen writes in The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology that sociobiology is, despite the public controversy regarding the applications to humans, "one of the scientific triumphs of the twentieth century." "Sociobiology is now part of the core research and curriculum of virtually all biology departments, and it is a foundation of the ...

  5. Social science - Wikipedia

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    Psychology differs from anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology in seeking to capture explanatory generalizations about the mental function and overt behaviour of individuals, while the other disciplines focus on creating descriptive generalizations about the functioning of social groups or situation-specific human behaviour ...

  6. Winemaking - Wikipedia

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    Winemaking, wine-making, or vinification is the production of wine, starting with the selection of the fruit, its fermentation into alcohol, and the bottling of the finished liquid. The history of wine -making stretches over millennia.

  7. Viticulture - Wikipedia

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    In addition to winemaking, grapes have been grown for the production of raisins. [14] The earliest act of cultivation appears to have been the favoring of hermaphroditic members of the Vitis vinifera species over the barren male vines and the female vines, which were dependent on a nearby male for pollination.

  8. Biology and consumer behaviour - Wikipedia

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    However, little literature has considered the link between consumption behaviour and the basics of human biology. Segmentation by biological-driven demographics such as sex and age are already popular and pervasive in marketing. As more knowledge and research is known, targeting based on consumers' biology is of growing interest and use to ...

  9. Social ecological model - Wikipedia

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    Basis of intervention programs to address issues such as bullying, obesity, overeating and physical activity. Interventions that use the social ecological model as a framework include mass media campaigns, social marketing, and skills development. In economics: economics, human habits, and cultural characteristics are shaped by geography.